Event: The Future of News Automation

What is the future of News Automation? This is the main question we will discuss at the final event of the Immersive Automation project (2016-2018) where we will sum up what we learned. Link to video feed here 8pm CET https://connect.funet.fi/autofuture/

Our keynote speaker is David Caswell, Executive Product Manager of BBC News Labs and founder of Structured Stories. David works at the intersection between technology (especially data-driven technology), knowledge engineering and digital media.

We also have other excellent experts talking about the future of news automation, among them two pioneers from the Nordic countries, Magnus Aabech, Editor, editorial development at the Norwegian News Agency, NTB, and Sören Karlsson, CEO of United Robots from Sweden. From the Finnish news agency STT, we have Maija Paikkala, Business Developer and Key Account Manager and from the Finnish public broadcasting company Jukka Niva, Head of Yle News Lab. They are both experimenting with new forms of structured journalism.

At this event, we will also present the industry report “News Automation – A WAN-IFRA guide to the field” that we have produced for the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).

In the report, we present five examples of how news automation has been implemented in newsrooms around the world: Mittmedia and United Robots (Sweden), Radar (UK), Washington Post (US), Valtteri (Finland), and Xinhua and Caixin (China).

This is a public event.

When: November 28, 2018, 9am to 12noon

Where: Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, Snellmaninkatu 12.

Schedule

9:00 Introduction: Carl-Gustav Lindén, Docent, Swedish School of Social Science at University of Helsinki

David Caswell is the Executive Product Manager of BBC News Labs. He has previously led product management for data and machine learning at Tribune Publishing, and was the Director of Product Management for Content Understanding at Yahoo!. Caswell is also the developer of the Structured Stories platform, which demonstrated the representation of journalistic events and narratives as structured data under editorial control, and has written extensively on structured and automated journalism. He has also researched structured journalism as a Fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, and co-organizes an annual workshop on event and storyline representation for news.

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This is the web page for the research project Immersive Automation (IA), a research consortium where data scientists, linguists, and journalists work together with researchers and media companies to bring forward a solution for producing engaging, data driven content.
We launched in 2017 and here we are sharing knowledge concerning news automation.

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